Setting Up Your E-mail with iPhone

This tutorial shows you how to set up your iPhone to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up with an iPhone 4.0.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account with an iPhone

  1. Click the Settings icon and then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.


     
  2. Select Add Account... to get the following screen:


     
  3. Select Other from the bottom of the list, then click on Add Mail Account and the following screen will open:


     
  4. Fill in the following information:

    Name Your real name goes here
    Address Your email address is username@yourdomain.com
    Password Your password is personally given to you
    Description A short description for this account. Your email address will work.

    Click Save and the following window will pop up:


     
  5. Note: If a "POP account verification failed" warning appears during these steps you can ignore it. This is just the mail app attempting to connect to the server using its default SSL authentication.

    Select POP from the top and then fill in the following information for Incoming Mail Server:

    Host Name Your POP3 server is mail.yourdomain.com
    User Name Your POP3 Account ID is username@yourdomain.com
    Password This is the password you entered during last step.

    Fill in the following information for Outgoing Mail Server:

    Host Name Your SMTP server is mail.yourdomain.com
    User Name Your SMPT user name is username@yourdomain.com
    Password This is the password you entered during last step.
     
  6. Once you have all the info filled in click Save. This will take you back to the mail account listing screen. 



  7. Select the new account from the list that shows up and click on Account Info. The following screen will appear once you scroll down:



  8. Click on Advanced to get the following screen: 


     
  9. Under Incoming Setting make sure Use SSL is set to OFF and the Server Port is 110. Now select Authentication to see the following:


  10. Click on the Home Button and verify your email is now working.